Funny, the amazing lack of sympathy I'm finding within my heart

[annathepiper]

solarbird and I just got home a little while ago after having a nice evening at spazzkat's place, playing Mah Jongg and eating pizza with him and tinlail. Not terribly surprisingly, but still annoyingly, we found party noise in progress up and down our block and the smell of beer everywhere.

And Dara found that somebody had parked blocking our southern driveway. So she called the cops.

The kid who owns the car just came to our door trying to bitch about how mean we are that we called the cops on him and caused him to get a $40 parking ticket. And when Dara sternly informed him that he was preventing our tenants' access to said driveway, he got snarky and wanted to know if we were doing this just because we didn't like having parties next door.

"No," Dara told him, "we're doing it because YOU'RE BLOCKING OUR TENANTS' ACCESS TO OUR DRIVEWAY."

Kid still kept at it. Claimed he had a Zone 6 permit and everything so we were obviously neighbors, and when that didn't sway us, whined that anybody who couldn't get their car past his shouldn't have a driver's license.

I came to the door too to give Dara moral support and chimed in with, "What part of 'DON'T PARK IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S DRIVEWAYS' are you not understanding?"

Which was as polite as I was going to get, even if what I was THINKING was 'So you live in our neighborhood? You're still an idiot. Move your fucking car.'

I'm just worried this'll bite us in the ass now. That kid seemed clean cut enough, and didn't look skanky, but after we had a fucking riot here last weekend because the students got out of hand I'm not exactly expecting sweetness and light out of any students we piss off.

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

Why did the stupid kid keep ARGUING about it? I mean, did he honestly believe you would say "oh, you're right, we're so very sorry that we were mean" and then wave a magic wand to take the parking ticket away?

When we lived in Ballard, neighborhood retards would park *completely blocking* our driveway. We'd call it in and the cop would show up at the same time as the tow-truck. The cop would hurriedly stick a ticket under the wipers before the car got towed off.

That kid was lucky he didn't also have to pay an impound fee. Stupid little bastard.

[annathepiper]

Damned if I know what the hell the kid was thinking. Maybe he wanted to just vent frustration, I don't know. Gah.

Nothing appears to have happened to our house or yard as a result, but still I'm vaguely twitchy about it.

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable! Next time show up at the door with a baseball bat and growl menacingly. ;) Honestly - anyone who lives anywhere where there is a neighborhood should know not to park in front of a driveway.

[annathepiper]

Don't have a baseball bat. But we do have SWORDS.

Of course, I'm not all that good at menacing growling; that's more Dara's department. ;)

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

You're partners. Dara will growl, you'll wield the sword. All will be happy except the people peeing their pants on the other side of the door. :)

[annathepiper]

*cackle* SOLD! We'll have to see what happens next time. ;D

[brombear.livejournal.com]

Either that or call me and I'll see what I can do to get over there with a tow chain...let the little bastards go look for their car...

[annathepiper]

*grin* I'll keep that in mind. Thanks! ;)